The Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle," is a fundamental force-carrying particle of the Higgs field, which is responsible for granting other particles their mass. The Higgs boson was theorized in 1964 by a team led by Peter Higgs to explain the final 1% of where the mass of protons and neutrons originates. The Higgs field generates mass via its interaction with other particles and the mechanism carried by the Higgs boson called the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism. The stronger a particle interacts with the Higgs field, the heavier the particle ends up being. The Higgs boson was discovered in 2012 at CERN, the European Council for Nuclear Research, through the use of the Large Hadron Collider. The nickname "God particle" was coined by physicist Leon Lederman in his 1993 book "The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?"). Lederman gave the Higgs boson this nickname because it is so central to the state of physics today, so crucial to our final understanding of the structure of matter, yet so elusive).